Phillip Schofield

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

He's been on our screens in five different decades, but Phillip Schofield can still surprise us. In this podcast exclusive, Fearne chats to Phillip about his extraordinary life on camera, his continued fear of singing, and the mental loops he trapped himself in as he came to terms with his sexualty.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fun Cotton and this is Happy Place, a little safe space that we've made for people
0:08.0	to come and share how they cope out there in the real world.
0:12.0	Oh, today my guest is the wonderful Philips Go field.
0:18.0	You know the loop is you have to come out.
0:20.0	This is the only thing that can save you. You have to come out. You can't come out.
0:24.0	What are you going to do to family? What will you do to your wife?
0:26.0	How can you possibly come out? You have to come out. You can't come out. You have to. You can't.
0:30.0	All night, all night, round and round and round and round looking at every conceivable part of this loop.
0:36.0	Now I know Philip needs no introduction whatsoever but for the sake of our ever growing international listeners,
0:42.0	Philip has been on British TV since the early 80s, moving from children's TV to prime time
0:50.0	hosting this morning for nearly two whole decades.
0:54.0	And it was on that very show back in March that Philip announced to millions
0:58.0	that with the strength and support of my wife Stephanie and my daughters,
1:02.0	I've been coming to terms with the fact that I am gay.
1:06.0	There's been a huge outpouring of love for him since then but this is the first podcast
1:10.0	interview that he's given. I feel really honoured about that and I can't wait to share it with you.
1:16.0	So today should we do this? Here's the show.
1:20.0	Philip, it's so lovely to see you face to face. I'm so glad that this isn't on Zoom.
1:30.0	And we are socially distanced. I'm so over all of that.
1:34.0	So, I'm so glad that this isn't on Zoom.
1:38.0	And we are socially distanced. I'm so over all of that.
1:42.0	So, I'm so glad that this isn't on Zoom.
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